Electric vehicle charger with 50 amp plug

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NEC 625.13 says chargers need to be "permanently connected and fastened in place" if they are over 20 amp, 125 volts. But everybody is running 50 amp receptacles and using a 50 amp plug as the disconnecting means. Does permanently connected mean hard wired? And if not in sight of the circuit breaker or over 50 feet away you then need a disconnecting means like a pull out fuse box. So are all these thousands of installations not Code compliant?
 
Some AHJ's are encouraging their inspectors to use the 2017 as a guide to help resolve confusing language in previous code cycles.

NFPA-70 625.13 as it appears in 2011 was completely removed in the 2017 cycle, and may provide grounds for similar petitions of clarification.
 
mlnk said:
NEC 625.13 says chargers need to be "permanently connected and fastened in place" if they are over 20 amp, 125 volts. But everybody is running 50 amp receptacles and using a 50 amp plug as the disconnecting means. Does permanently connected mean hard wired? And if not in sight of the circuit breaker or over 50 feet away you then need a disconnecting means like a pull out fuse box. So are all these thousands of installations not Code compliant?
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I think you can even order those chargers with the cord pre-installed. What then, cut it off?

I have always had to use a range cord but I have had the jobs inspected and they passed.

The reason the united need to be fastened in place is obvious, they use the charger as a rack to store the cord when not in use.
 
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